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-pg 29-30 Sirius B is not only the smallest type of star in the sky, it is also the heaviest.
It consists of a metal the Dogon call sagala which is a little brighter than iron an so
heavy that all earthly beings combined cannot lift it (the Dogon know of 86 fundamental
elements)! They say there is another star besides po tolo orbiting Sirius called emme
ya, which is larger than it but four times lighter and travels along a greater trajectory in
the same direction and in a period of 50 years. This star emme ya (sun of women) has
a satellite called nyan tolo (star of women).
-pg 31 Their chief instructor, Ongnonlou, drew in the sand a picture of the planet Saturn
showing its rings and said they are permanent (distinguishing them from the rings
occasionally seen around the moon). They were shown how, by the arrangement of large
stones (megaliths) and altars over a wide geographical area, along with the location of
mountain caves. The Dogon marked certain auspicious positions of the planet Venus
which then determined their Venus calendar, which also synchronized with their solar,
lunar, and Sirius calendars; the rotation pattern of Jupiters four largest moons were
described to favor the growth patterns of the leaves of a plant called sene.
They were told that the earth is in the Milky Way and that the Milky Way has a spiral
structure; that there are an infinite number of stars and spiraling worlds, and that the
heavenly motions are likened to the circulation of the blood.
-pg 31 Science-all science-be it physical sciences, the social sciences or the spiritual
(and by the latter I mean music, art, philosophy/religion) is the search for unity or
wholeness within or without all human experience. Dr, Wade Nobles says, science is the
formal reconstruction or representation of a peoples shared set of systematic and
cumulative ideas, beliefs and knowledge (i.e., common sense) stemming from thi9er
cultureit must be consistent with the essentials of its peoples common sense. (Wade
Nobles, African Consciousness and Liberation Struggles:Implications for the
Development and Construction of Scientific Paradigms,(1978), pg. 21,22).
-pg 34 there is a very close cultural and physical lineages between the Dogon, the
ancient Egyptians, and the Sumeriansthere is correspondence between the Bozos
mysteries and the highest level of Egyptian Mysteries-the Black Rite of AST (Isis) who is
identified with spdt, the Star Sirius.
-pg 34 The Bozo, cousins to the Dogon, describe Sirius B as the eye star, and here we
see the Egyptians designating Asari by an eye. The Bozo also describe Sirius as seated,
and a sear (throne) was the first sign in the name Ast. In Egypt, Sirius was a star in the
Bow and Arrow constellation while the fifty great Gods of Sumer, the Anunnaki, are
spoken of a s being seated in the celestial regions of the Bow Star. One of these Gods
was Asaru; in essence Asari of Egypt.
-pg 34 One final comment about the Anunnaki. The Anunnaki of Sumer, as celestial
entities, were known as Igigi. The Sumerians called themselves rather proudly sag
giggi the black headed people. Gig means black, In Tamil, a Dravidian language
spoken in Southern India, gig means black, Recent examinations of archaeological
evidence, along with the grammatical and lexical structure of Sumerian languages, such
as Ural and Elamite, has revealed striking correspondence with Dravidian languages
suggesting that the Dravidians were among the founders of Sumerian civilization.
-pg 36 - it might be argued that Eastern Africa, the Near East, Iran, and parts of India
formed a single cultural pool from the Neolithic period (28,000 years ago) onward almost
to the beginning of the Christian era, a region wherein ideas and objects traveled back
and forth. Sjoberg states, there is a good deal of archaeological evidence for maritime
relations during the first three millennia B.C., and perhaps earlier, between the western
coast of India and Iran, Mesopotamia, the Eastern Mediterranean, East Africa, Egypt and
parts of Arabia, (Sjoberg, Andree, Who Are the Dravidians? Symposium on Dravidian
Civilizations, Editor, Jenkins Publishing Co., The Pemberton Press, Austin and N.Y., pg
13, 1971.
-pg 36 President Leopold Senghor of Senegal, at a 1974 lecture delivered in India,
pointed out that geologists maintain that the Indian subcontinent was formerly attached
to East Africa, Senghor also reminded his audience that southern India is in the same
latitude as Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. He went on to
draw comparisons between the African and Dravidian languages, noting that as regards
metallurgy, the following comparisons might be made: in Bambara (Dogon) nummu is
the word for forge, and in Telugu (Dravidian), inumu, iron; in Wolof and Telugu, kamara
is the name given to the blacksmiths caste. Based on these and other similarities
Senghor concludes: It is indeed beyond question that the Dravidians share the same
Black blood as their brothers in Africa and those of the diaspora, (Leopold Senghor,
Negritude and Dravidian Cultures, journal of Tamil Studies, No. 5, pg 2, September
1974.
-pg 36 Dogon speak of the Nommos as being Masters of the Water, as the
Instructors, as Monitors, as the Fathers of Mankind, or as the Guardians of the
spiritual principles.